10 February 1997

Commons Sitting of 10 February 1997

  1. Preamble 7 words
  2. PRAYERS 5 words
  3. Oral Answers to Questions
    1. TRANSPORT
      1. Bicycles (Rail Carriage) 702 words
      2. Fatal Accidents (M180-A180) 439 words
      3. Parking Restrictions 418 words
      4. Private Finance Initiative 732 words
      5. London Transport (Finance) 625 words
      6. School Transport 677 words
      7. Chiltern Railway 463 words
      8. Rail Privatisation 881 words
      9. London Underground (Privatisation) 737 words
      10. Rail Privatisation 450 words
      11. Road Embankments (Landscaping) 305 words
      12. Rail Freight (Yorkshire) 401 words
      13. London-Tilbury-Southend Line 312 words
      14. Traffic (M65-A56) 419 words
    2. LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL
      1. Drugs 535 words
      2. Non-Sitting Fridays 328 words
  4. Ashworth Hospital 5,138 words
  5. Questions to Ministers 132 words
  6. BIRDS (REGISTRATION CHARGES) BILL 15 words
  7. Orders of the Day
    1. Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Bill [Lords] 22,087 words
    2. MERCHANT SHIPPING AND MARITIME SECURITY BILL [LORDS] [MONEY] 148 words
    3. MERCHANT SHIPPING AND MARITIME SECURITY BILL [LORDS] [WAYS AND MEANS] 172 words
  8. Welsh Development Agency Bill 23,315 words
  9. WELSH DEVELOPMENT AGENCY BILL [MONEY] 117 words
  10. Multiple Sclerosis 4,184 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 10 February 1997

  1. DEFENCE
    1. Radio Spectrum 165 words
    2. Royal Yacht 1,198 words
    3. Biological Warfare Germs (Southampton) 274 words
    4. Low Flying 95 words
    5. Territorial Army 62 words
    6. Publicity Material (Languages) 166 words
    7. Gulf War Veterans 263 words
    8. Air Incident (Inverness) 76 words
    9. Army Base Repair Organisation 202 words
    10. Royal Naval College 326 words
  2. HEALTH
    1. Dental Services 157 words
    2. Personal Social Services Records 598 words
    3. Hospitality 51 words
    4. Casualty Units 163 words
    5. Compulsory Competitive Tendering 43 words
    6. Prostate Brachytherapy 42 words
    7. NHS Trusts 198 words
    8. Health Services (Norfolk) 143 words
    9. Cancelled Operations (Trent Region) 554 words
    10. Hospital Closures 93 words
    11. Rotherham General Hospital (Deaths) 151 words
    12. Perinatal Mortality 373 words
  3. NATIONAL HERITAGE
    1. Award Presentations 159 words
    2. Lottery Grants 59 words
  4. CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
    1. Draft Pensions Measure 161 words
  5. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
    1. Dangerous Driving (Pleas) 319 words
  6. DUCHY OF LANCASTER
    1. Ministerial Sub-committee on Health Strategy 66 words
    2. Manchester City Centre (Rebuilding) 97 words
  7. HOME DEPARTMENT
    1. Prisoners' Brains 85 words
    2. Voluntary Groups 119 words
    3. Doncaster Prison (Asylum Seekers) 313 words
  8. TREASURY
    1. Recombinant Factor 8 Blood Products 62 words
    2. North-East Regional Crime Squad 98 words
    3. Value Added Tax (European Union) 436 words
    4. Travel Insurance 660 words
    5. Value Added Tax (Isle of Man) 90 words
    6. Departmental Policies (Bournemouth) 125 words
    7. Landfill Tax 816 words
    8. Live Animal Exports 119 words
    9. Electoral Registers 168 words
    10. Nationalised Industries 73 words
    11. Income Tax 111 words
    12. Dorneywood 53 words
  9. PRIME MINISTER
    1. Equal Opportunities 74 words
    2. Travel Costs 75 words
    3. Ministerial Incomes 105 words
    4. Scott Inquiry 185 words
    5. Ministerial Visits (Latin America) 596 words
    6. Chequers 275 words
  10. HOUSE OF COMMONS
    1. Legislative Timetable 52 words
    2. Parliament (Dissolution) 45 words
    3. Prime Minister's Question Time 44 words
    4. Undelivered Speeches 46 words
    5. Parliamentary Proceedings 66 words
    6. Points of Order 44 words
    7. Divisions 89 words
  11. SCOTLAND
    1. Ministerial Meetings 202 words
    2. Water and Sewerage Charges 281 words
    3. Psychotic Diseases 87 words
    4. Doctors' Disbursements 216 words
  12. TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    1. Armoured Vehicles (Indonesia) 612 words
    2. Exports (Indonesia) 113 words
    3. Nanotechnology 697 words
    4. Post Office (Privatisation) 68 words
    5. Coal Mines (Public Safety) 57 words
    6. Equal Opportunities 134 words
    7. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons 71 words
    8. Rom Data 214 words
    9. Regulatory Bodies 149 words
    10. Companies (Investigations) 363 words
    11. Auditors 340 words
    12. DTI Inspectors' Reports 86 words
    13. Supervisory Bodies (Money Laundering) 117 words
    14. Land Mines 47 words
  13. WALES
    1. Teachers, Clwyd 138 words
  14. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
    1. Equal Opportunities 176 words
    2. Nitrates 96 words
    3. Policy Initiatives (Funding) 57 words
    4. Animal Movements Computer System 78 words
    5. Rabies 132 words
    6. Genetic Engineering 187 words
    7. Newcastle Disease 85 words
    8. Compensation Payments (Diseased Animals) 306 words
    9. Droplix 210 words
  15. EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
    1. "Going GM" Conferences 1,072 words
    2. "Coalition for Citizenship" 463 words
    3. GCSE Scores 1,483 words
    4. Skills Research 98 words
    5. Jobseeker's Allowance (Sanctions) 287 words
    6. Teachers (Early Retirement) 217 words
    7. School Buildings (Kirklees) 106 words
    8. Quick Corporation 80 words
    9. Surplus Places 164 words
    10. General Schools Budget 304 words
    11. Part-time Study Rules 72 words
    12. Computer Crime 281 words
    13. Modern Languages Examinations 145 words
  16. OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
    1. Zaire 165 words
  17. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
    1. UN Embargoes 347 words
    2. Former Prisoners of War (Japan) 116 words
    3. Conventional Forces in Europe 233 words
    4. China 184 words
    5. Turkey 175 words
    6. Arms Supplies (Rwanda) 188 words
    7. Falkland Islands (Oil Revenues) 65 words
    8. Iran 151 words
    9. Consul (Krakow) 61 words
  18. TRANSPORT
    1. Light Rapid Transit Systems 67 words
    2. Crime (London Underground) 82 words
    3. Road Improvements (Thames Gateway) 61 words
    4. Rail Privatisation 32 words
    5. European Transport Network 70 words
    6. Dartford-Thurrock Toll Crossing 26 words
    7. Dorchester Relief Road 201 words
    8. Public Transport 76 words
    9. Railway Infrastructure (Investment) 109 words
    10. Trackside Litter 130 words
    11. Road Maintenance 91 words
    12. Car Use 96 words
    13. Traffic Congestion (Costs) 53 words
    14. Channel Tunnel Rail Services 58 words
    15. Lorry Weights 38 words
    16. Heavy Goods Vehicles 255 words
    17. Data Collection (Postcodes) 87 words
    18. Motor Cycles (Provisional Licence Ban) 161 words
    19. Rail Routeing Guides 186 words
    20. Marine Safety Agency 102 words
    21. Newbury Bypass 116 words
    22. Motor Vehicles 1,011 words
    23. MV Derbyshire 168 words
    24. Rail Tickets 293 words
    25. Channel Tunnel Fire 194 words
    26. Overloaded Aircraft 50 words
    27. Road Fatalities 164 words
    28. Aviation Standards (Thailand) 157 words
    29. Air Operating Licences 28 words
    30. Vehicles (Pollution) 166 words
    31. Rail Link (London) 160 words
  19. SOCIAL SECURITY
    1. Claims Statistics 613 words
    2. Benefit Fraud 284 words
    3. Pensioner Incomes 193 words
    4. Benefit Upratings 127 words
    5. Benefits Agency Medical Services 635 words
    6. DSS Charge Programme 195 words
    7. National Insurance 107 words
    8. Back-to-work Bonus 307 words
    9. Housing Benefit 135 words
    10. Disability Benefit 212 words
    11. Invalidity Payments 480 words
  20. ENVIRONMENT
    1. Housing 175 words
    2. Planning Applications (Teesside) 223 words
    3. Nuclear Waste 91 words
    4. Blight 79 words
    5. Compulsory Purchase 149 words
    6. Climate Change Convention 136 words
    7. Oil Discharges (North Sea) 58 words
    8. Voluntary Purchase Grant 94 words
    9. Tenants' Rights 307 words
    10. Chorley Borough Council (Tenders) 203 words
    11. Landscape Protection 118 words
    12. Housing Corporation Loan Portfolios 159 words

Lords Sitting of 10 February 1997

  1. Preamble 22 words
  2. The Lord Bishop of Leicester 35 words
  3. Sudan: Human Rights 1,492 words
  4. Great Lakes Region: Aid 848 words
  5. Royal Naval College, Greenwich 691 words
  6. London Underground: Privatisation 958 words
  7. Business 38 words
  8. Police (Property) Bill 12 words
  9. Telecommunications (Fraud) Bill 65 words
  10. Dignity at Work Bill [H.L.] 157 words
  11. Education Bill 11,407 words
  12. Ashworth Hospital 4,647 words
  13. Education Bill 28,773 words
  14. Sundays (Dancing and Licensing) Bill [H.L.] 4,840 words
  15. Criminal Evidence (Amendment) Bill 3,180 words
  16. Horserace Totalisator Board Bill [H.L.] 6 words
  17. Land Registration Bill [H.L.] 14 words

Written Answers (Lords) of 10 February 1997

  1. Bahrain: Shaikh al-Jamri 138 words
  2. Bosnia: Human Rights Report 131 words
  3. Turkey and Bosnia: Military Relations 85 words
  4. NATO Enlargement: Alterations to Treaties 290 words
  5. NATO and EU Enlargement: Linkage 77 words
  6. NATO Enlargement: Costs 104 words
  7. Turkey: Order for Battle Tanks 120 words
  8. Continental Shelf 150 words
  9. "Bloody Sunday": Release of Records 94 words
  10. Cormorants 127 words
  11. Listening Devices and Confessionals 36 words
  12. Asylum Seekers 513 words
  13. Prisons: Census of Religious Affiliation 117 words
  14. Prison Rules and Young Offender Institution Rules: Consolidated Edition 101 words
  15. Income Tax Thresholds 440 words
  16. "Britannia" 91 words
  17. Longer Term Road Schemes 1,566 words